Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] a [noun sg] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was the lure of the big stores , though clothing coupons and shortage of money made them a feast for the eye only . |
| 2 | He rang up the hospital and got me a bed for the next week . |
| 3 | But he owed me a favour for a little job I 'd done him and I needed somewhere to stash my passport , emergency cash and one or two other goodies . |
| 4 | It said Mrs Falati ‘ seems to feel that Mrs Mandela owed her a living for the rest of her life ’ . |
| 5 | But going back to the 1944 triptych , you called it a base for the Crucifixion . |
| 6 | Here Revelstoke was in his element ; acute intelligence and charm , capacity for meticulous work , presence and eloquence , fluency in French and Spanish , and , above all , financial acumen made him a match for the wiliest of South American presidents , North American railway barons , European finance ministers , and the members of the British cabinet with all of whom he had to deal at one time or another . |
| 7 | He accepted that his return made him a target for the IRA . |
| 8 | Canny Scot that he is , he guessed what was happening , followed them out of the shop and offered them a tenner for the amp . |
| 9 | The processor sent me a cheque for the value of the two missing films . |
| 10 | He thought it a mistake for the Prince to make his first visit in the shadow of such a legendary figure . |
| 11 | He thought it a punishment for the note the young cleric had tried to smuggle out via De Gaulle . |
| 12 | Amongst the possible charges which legislators could face were fraud ( a fraud statute of the District of Columbia made it a felony for a person knowingly to write a cheque which exceeded the amount in the relevant account by more than $100 ) , tax evasion , and the violation of disclosure and campaign fund laws . |
| 13 | Scheckter and Depailler made it a double for the Tyrrell six-wheeler ( which was later to be banned , like many another intelligent innovation ) , Niki came third and Hunt limped in fifth , nearly a minute off the pace . |
| 14 | That term is sometimes used loosely to refer to travellers and persons of nomadic habits , and in Mills v. Cooper a Divisional Court accorded the term such a meaning for the purposes of the Highways Act , which made it an offence for a gypsy to encamp on a highway . |
| 15 | The section , introduced on 1 July last year — less than two weeks before the accident — made it an offence for a driver to cause death by careless driving and while over the drink drive limit . |
| 16 | ‘ I came from a poor family in the countryside and communism gave me a chance for a better life . |
| 17 | Got on one tube and that broke down from the end of she 's at Liverpool Street then she had to go different end to Oxford Street , but she ended up in Charing Cross then she got on another tube line at Charing Cross and then that broke down , so she said it took hours , then she gave a taxi , had to get a taxi back to Oxford Street and , and from Oxford Street back to Waterloo and it 's four pound and he gave her a change for a tenner instead , and she gave him a twenty pound note but , you know she 's absolutely haggard , so I said it 's just as well she can have a cup of tea before she goes , I just told her briefly about that so , erm , Carla 's a bit late ai n't she ? |
| 18 | ( He should have won a Nobel Prize for general relativity , but the idea that space and time were curved was still regarded as too speculative and controversial , so they gave him a prize for the photoelectric effect instead — ; not that it was not worth the prize on its own account . ) |
| 19 | It gave him a taste for a civilised life-style . |
| 20 | It was Tip 's first smell of Open success , and it gave him an appetite for the Open Championship . |
| 21 | He heard , as I did , the faint threat in the cousinly concern , and at least it gave him an excuse for a face-saving exit . |
| 22 | He first embarked on an Open University degree in the technology faculty some ten years ago , but gave it a rest for a few years before starting in earnest in 1986 , in his second year at Wedgwood . |
| 23 | Certainly she never considered herself a match for the actress Susan George , who was his escort that evening . |